Thanks, DishSubLA, but as you stated, the swap only works BEFORE getting to the DVR events screen. We're never watching live TV. After watching a recorded event and erase it, the DVR events screen and the audio/video appear.
Is there a way to make suggestions to DISH about better ways of doing things?
Well, do what I do on occasion: after deleting your DVR recording, immediately hit the
View TV button and then the
swap button quickly. Both commands happen just about instantaneously. Now, no spoilers.
Quite frankly my suggestions are as good as it is going to get. I would not even expect that by the end of the universe Dish will ever change this. Most people want the video and audio in the corner whenever possible. People love it that the video and audio in the corner are still there when the foray into the menu's many levels.
In fact, it used to be that when one backed out of a
stopped recording, to the DVR Recordings list, the video and audio was still the frozen frame of the stopped DVR recording with no audio. Eerily quiet. I think some time last year (well, now I have 722's and not 625's) they changed that so when you stop a DVR playback, then back out to the DVR list, the audio video is of the foreground tuner in the square at top right. I was a bit flummoxed by this change at first, but do prefer the live video and audio.
There are a ton of software and feature concerns on Dish's plate, many of them revenue producing. What you would like just isn't even the last position of Dish software concerns. Every system has its little features to which we must adjust. I don't think this feature is a deal breaker. But I hope the suggestions helped. Sorry.